Irish opposition party Fine Gael announced yesterday that as part of its tourism strategy it "will examine the feasibility of releasing the 1926 census to stimulate genealogy tourism” when it wins (sorry, if it wins!) the next Irish election.
The census is not currently due to be released until 2026. There was no Irish census in 1921, north or south, due to the War of Independence. If the census is released early, it will be for the southern counties which at that time constituted the Irish Free State.
(With thanks to the CIGO)
Chris
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
War of 1812 project update
Michael Dun has kindly been in touch to provide me with an update to his simply brilliant War of 1812: Privateers web project at www.1812privateers.org.
Michael has added two new datasets to the project:
The Register for Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815
www.1812privateers.org/GB/marque1793-1815.htm (PDF)
Letters of marque were basically licences issued to merchant vessels allowing them the right to attack and capture enemy vessels. Michael's database has been sourced from two Admiralty collections at the National Archives at Kew, ADM 7/328 [1793-1801] and ADM 7/649 [1803-1815]. The records have been ordered by master’s name and vessel name, ands there is also a vessel index.
UK POWs held in the United States during the War of 1812
www.1812privateers.org/GB/Prisoners.htm
Again, sourced from TNA (ADM 103/466) and including the names of some 15,000 army, navy and merchant navy prisoners held in the United States.
(With thanks to Michael)
Chris
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Michael has added two new datasets to the project:
The Register for Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815
www.1812privateers.org/GB/marque1793-1815.htm (PDF)
Letters of marque were basically licences issued to merchant vessels allowing them the right to attack and capture enemy vessels. Michael's database has been sourced from two Admiralty collections at the National Archives at Kew, ADM 7/328 [1793-1801] and ADM 7/649 [1803-1815]. The records have been ordered by master’s name and vessel name, ands there is also a vessel index.
UK POWs held in the United States during the War of 1812
www.1812privateers.org/GB/Prisoners.htm
Again, sourced from TNA (ADM 103/466) and including the names of some 15,000 army, navy and merchant navy prisoners held in the United States.
(With thanks to Michael)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Virtual tour of Inverness Town House
Those loveable loves at Am Baile have placed an interactive virtual tour of Inverness Town House online. Quick Time is required to view the presentation. You can go for a spin inside the hall, or click on objects within the room to find out more about them.
To see the tour in English, click here; agus sa Ghàidhlig anseo.
(Thanks to Am Baile via Facebook)
Chris
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To see the tour in English, click here; agus sa Ghàidhlig anseo.
(Thanks to Am Baile via Facebook)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
40th anniversary of decimilisation
Today is the 40th anniversary of decimilisation, when pounds, shillings and pence, became err... pounds, shillings and pence, but in a sensible way! The National Archives has a write up on it at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/540.htm
Mad how I went decimal shortly after I was born, and my kids went digital shortly after they were! :)
Chris
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Mad how I went decimal shortly after I was born, and my kids went digital shortly after they were! :)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Monday, 14 February 2011
Guild of One Name Studies membership offer
News from the Guild of One Name Studies:
The Guild of One-Name Studies offers a special extended Membership to new joiners
The Guild of One-Name Studies is to offer a special extended membership to new joiners at the forthcoming Who Do You Think You Are? Live show being held in the UK at the Olympia, London on Friday 25th to Sunday 27th February 2011.
Normally membership of the Guild costs £15.00 and covers a period of up to a year with renewal on 1st November 2011. This special extended membership will cost £20.00 but will include a full year's extra membership, renewal not being due until 1st November 2012. The aim of the scheme is to attract more new members and to encourage these members to stay with the Guild for longer and to appreciate and utilise the various benefits available to members.
For people who cannot attend the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, the special offer of an extended membership will be made available to them for a week from when the show opens on Friday 25th February 2011 on the Guild website at:
www.one-name.org/specialoffer.html
This extended membership option has been introduced following the completion of an internal membership retention survey which identified why existing members joined the Guild, their knowledge and use of Guild services and facilities and the reasons why members failed to renew their membership.
If this offer of an extended membership proves successful it could be introduced on a wider basis.
Details of all the Guild facilities can be found at:
www.one-name.org/guildsvces.html
The Guild of One-Name Studies has a freephone/toll free helpdesk for members of the public in the UK, North American and Australia to call the Guild to find out:
• more about undertaking a One-Name Study
• the benefits of joining the Guild of One-Name Studies, and
• the assistance members of the Guild can provide to anyone researching their family history on any of the 7,800 plus names currently being researched
Des Gander, Guild’s Publicity Officer, said today
“The Guild’s offer of a special extended membership provides a wonderful opportunity for people interesting in undertaking a one-name study to join the Guild of One-Name Studies for an extended period to experience the services and facilities that the Guild offers”
(With thanks to Des Gander)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
The Guild of One-Name Studies offers a special extended Membership to new joiners
The Guild of One-Name Studies is to offer a special extended membership to new joiners at the forthcoming Who Do You Think You Are? Live show being held in the UK at the Olympia, London on Friday 25th to Sunday 27th February 2011.
Normally membership of the Guild costs £15.00 and covers a period of up to a year with renewal on 1st November 2011. This special extended membership will cost £20.00 but will include a full year's extra membership, renewal not being due until 1st November 2012. The aim of the scheme is to attract more new members and to encourage these members to stay with the Guild for longer and to appreciate and utilise the various benefits available to members.
For people who cannot attend the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, the special offer of an extended membership will be made available to them for a week from when the show opens on Friday 25th February 2011 on the Guild website at:
www.one-name.org/specialoffer.html
This extended membership option has been introduced following the completion of an internal membership retention survey which identified why existing members joined the Guild, their knowledge and use of Guild services and facilities and the reasons why members failed to renew their membership.
If this offer of an extended membership proves successful it could be introduced on a wider basis.
Details of all the Guild facilities can be found at:
www.one-name.org/guildsvces.html
The Guild of One-Name Studies has a freephone/toll free helpdesk for members of the public in the UK, North American and Australia to call the Guild to find out:
• more about undertaking a One-Name Study
• the benefits of joining the Guild of One-Name Studies, and
• the assistance members of the Guild can provide to anyone researching their family history on any of the 7,800 plus names currently being researched
Des Gander, Guild’s Publicity Officer, said today
“The Guild’s offer of a special extended membership provides a wonderful opportunity for people interesting in undertaking a one-name study to join the Guild of One-Name Studies for an extended period to experience the services and facilities that the Guild offers”
(With thanks to Des Gander)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Follow Scottish GENES on KILTR
A new online social networking site dedicated to all matters Scottish launched recently in Beta format. I've created a new group on the site, Scottish GENES, to provide another way for you to sign up for all the latest genealogy news and events!To sign up you'll need to register with KILTR for free at www.kiltr.com - the group itself is available at www.kiltr.com/Group/2872870. The site promises a lot in the next few months, so here's to it and good luck!
NB: Personally at the moment I find that KILTR works much better through Firefox than Internet Explorer.
Remember you can also follow Scottish GENES on Twitter and Facebook, or by daily email feed by subscribing through links on the right hand side of this page.
Chris
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BBC Radio Scotland history of medicine programmes
Just heard of this, so sorry for late notice!
A series of programmes from the BBC on the history of medicine - 2 days left to listen to it online, and it is 330 minutes long, with several programmes.
The blurb on the website states:
"BBC Scotland's health correspondent, Eleanor Bradford looks back at the history of medicine in Scotland. Featuring Billy Kay's four part series Cheating Death, the story of the Lennox Castle Hospital and The Lock in Glasgow. We'll also be hearing about the benefits of fresh air, and celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in an archived programme from 1979."
For a full listing of programmes, and to hear online, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y2xwk
(With thanks to @ScottishHistory on Twitter)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
A series of programmes from the BBC on the history of medicine - 2 days left to listen to it online, and it is 330 minutes long, with several programmes.
The blurb on the website states:
"BBC Scotland's health correspondent, Eleanor Bradford looks back at the history of medicine in Scotland. Featuring Billy Kay's four part series Cheating Death, the story of the Lennox Castle Hospital and The Lock in Glasgow. We'll also be hearing about the benefits of fresh air, and celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in an archived programme from 1979."
For a full listing of programmes, and to hear online, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y2xwk
(With thanks to @ScottishHistory on Twitter)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Northumberland & Durham FHS to move
For those with ancestry just over the border, some news from Philippa McCray from the English based Federation of Family History Societies (www.ffhs.org.uk):
NORTHUMBERLAND & DURHAM FHS TO MOVE PREMISES
Please be aware that the existing Library & Research Centre located at Bolbec Hall will close at the end of the day on Friday 18th March and will reopen on Monday 4th April at 7th Floor, Percy House, Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4PW - Telephone 0191 2612159 - www.ndfhs.org
Opening times will be 10-4, Monday to Friday and access to the premises is wheelchair user friendly
It is to be staffed by volunteers who are experienced in family history research and are there to advise visitors.
For those who have never visited the society’s research centre before, there is a rich collection of records related to family history, covering both the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Members have generously donated family trees and family histories and they are located in the library. To enhance the contemporaneous knowledge of ancestors, there is a very good section with local history publications covering both counties.
The centre has an up to date IT system that not only gives access to the society’s own databases and CD’s. It also has access to the library/community editions of both Ancestry and FindmyPast.
Facilities are available to make tea or coffee and also to eat any refreshments brought in by visitors to the centre.
(With thanks to Philippa, and good luck to the society for the move!)
Chris
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NORTHUMBERLAND & DURHAM FHS TO MOVE PREMISES
Please be aware that the existing Library & Research Centre located at Bolbec Hall will close at the end of the day on Friday 18th March and will reopen on Monday 4th April at 7th Floor, Percy House, Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4PW - Telephone 0191 2612159 - www.ndfhs.org
Opening times will be 10-4, Monday to Friday and access to the premises is wheelchair user friendly
It is to be staffed by volunteers who are experienced in family history research and are there to advise visitors.
For those who have never visited the society’s research centre before, there is a rich collection of records related to family history, covering both the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Members have generously donated family trees and family histories and they are located in the library. To enhance the contemporaneous knowledge of ancestors, there is a very good section with local history publications covering both counties.
The centre has an up to date IT system that not only gives access to the society’s own databases and CD’s. It also has access to the library/community editions of both Ancestry and FindmyPast.
Facilities are available to make tea or coffee and also to eat any refreshments brought in by visitors to the centre.
(With thanks to Philippa, and good luck to the society for the move!)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
My Love is like a what...?!
It's Valentine's Day, and MyHeritage (http://www.myheritage.com/) has an interesting new announcement:
MyHeritage.com to host online gallery of British love letters from the 15th Century to today, and launch the search for the most romantic British love letter ever written
London, United Kingdom and Tel Aviv, Israel – February 14th 2011: To celebrate Valentine’s Day and the opportunity it presents for the British to drop traditional reserve and openly express affection, the world’s largest family network, MyHeritage.com, launched today a search for the most romantic British love letter ever written – with the UK’s best-selling chick-lit author, Wendy Holden, acting as judge.
From Valentine’s Day, MyHeritage.com is calling upon the British public to delve into their attics and shoe boxes to find ancestral love letters, and submit them via www.myheritage.com/loveletters. Participants are also welcome to submit more recently-written love letters and messages for consideration. The best submissions will be featured on the special competition webpage within MyHeritage.com, with the most romantic British love letter of all time – as chosen by Wendy Holden (author of The School For Husbands, Beautiful People and Gallery Girl) – being announced on Friday Feb. 25th 2011. Full competition terms and conditions online.
To provide inspiration, MyHeritage.com has teamed-up with a number of leading UK museums and archives – including the British Library, The Royal Naval Museum, and The Imperial War Museum – to obtain scans (and transcripts) of significant British love letters from the past 500 years. These include the first love letter written in English (from 1477), and poignant missives penned by an unknown World War Two airman based in Yorkshire. The historical British love letters can be found in an online gallery at www.myheritage.com/loveletters.
The initiative is part of a drive by MyHeritage.com to encourage people to collect and preserve their family memories online – past and present. Romances between older living relatives and ancestors, often illustrated in love letters, are a critical point in every family’s history. With over 54 million users around the world, MyHeritage.com has become the leading place online for creating and sharing a family tree.
The Historical British Love Letters Online at MyHeritage.com include:
From the 20th Century
Letter written by an airman, ‘Jonny’, to his sweetheart during the Second World War. From the address, it can be established that Jonny was situated at the RAF base in Melbourne, Yorkshire, which was open from 1940 – 45. It is believed that the letters were written at some point during this time frame. No other information is known about the writer of this letter, or the recipient.
Darling sweet, you will think about me and go on loving me if I don’t see you quite so often, won’t you? (I think I shall be able to manage once a week.)
I love you very, very, very much.
Jonny
xxxxxxxx
From the 18th Century
Lyrics for “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”, or simply “Loch Lomond” for short, the well-known traditional Scottish song. Interpretations of the song vary. One is that it is attributed to a Jacobite Highlander, captured after the1745 rising (often referred to as the ‘Forty-Five), when Charles Edward Stuart – commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender – attempted to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. Some schools of thought believe that this version is written to a lover who lived near the loch; and is sung by one of two captured soldiers, the one who was sentenced to die – the low road being symbolic of the passage to the underworld.
A second interpretation is that the song is sung by the lover of a captured rebel, who was awaiting execution in London. It was common for the heads of executed rebels to be set upon pikes and exhibited between London and Glasgow. A morbid procession along the “high road” (the most important road) would follow, although the relatives of the rebels were forced to walk back along the “low road” (the inferior road travelled by peasants and commoners).
From the 17th Century
Sir Walter Raleigh’s last correspondence to his wife, written during his imprisonment in The Tower of London, on – what he thought was to be – the eve of his execution (1603). Raleigh had been tried and convicted of treason, after his alleged involvement in the Main Plot (a conspiracy by English Catholics to remove King James I from the throne).
From the 16th Century
A letter from Henry VIII to his second wife Anne Boleyn during 1533 – the same year that they were married.
Owing to Henry’s annulled marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the union of Henry and Anne – and her subsequent execution – made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.
From the 15th Century
The Paston letters are a remarkable collection containing over 400 letters (c.200,000 words) written over three generations by a Norfolk family.
From these, the example featured on MyHeritage.com is the oldest love letter in Britain, dating back to 1447. It is also the first-recorded reference to a person being described as a Valentine. The letter was written by Margery Brews to her fiancé John Paston, and it alludes – in some agitation – to dowry arrangements for their impending marriage. It is written in an informal style, with several personal flourishes in the way she forms her letters and no special concern for consistency in spelling. The lettering is not always easy to decipher, and transcripts of the manuscript vary somewhat as a result.
And yf ye cōmande me to kepe me true whereuer Igo, Iwyse Iwill do all my myght yowe to love and neuer no mo [more] And yf my freends say þt Ido amys [amiss] þei schal not me let [hinder] so for to do [.] myne herte me bydds ever more to love yowe truly ouer all erthely thing
An excerpt from Margery Brews letter to her fiancé, John Paston
For more see http://blog.myheritage.com/2011/02/join-our-search-for-the-greatest-love-letter-of-all-time/
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
MyHeritage.com to host online gallery of British love letters from the 15th Century to today, and launch the search for the most romantic British love letter ever written
London, United Kingdom and Tel Aviv, Israel – February 14th 2011: To celebrate Valentine’s Day and the opportunity it presents for the British to drop traditional reserve and openly express affection, the world’s largest family network, MyHeritage.com, launched today a search for the most romantic British love letter ever written – with the UK’s best-selling chick-lit author, Wendy Holden, acting as judge.
From Valentine’s Day, MyHeritage.com is calling upon the British public to delve into their attics and shoe boxes to find ancestral love letters, and submit them via www.myheritage.com/loveletters. Participants are also welcome to submit more recently-written love letters and messages for consideration. The best submissions will be featured on the special competition webpage within MyHeritage.com, with the most romantic British love letter of all time – as chosen by Wendy Holden (author of The School For Husbands, Beautiful People and Gallery Girl) – being announced on Friday Feb. 25th 2011. Full competition terms and conditions online.
To provide inspiration, MyHeritage.com has teamed-up with a number of leading UK museums and archives – including the British Library, The Royal Naval Museum, and The Imperial War Museum – to obtain scans (and transcripts) of significant British love letters from the past 500 years. These include the first love letter written in English (from 1477), and poignant missives penned by an unknown World War Two airman based in Yorkshire. The historical British love letters can be found in an online gallery at www.myheritage.com/loveletters.
The initiative is part of a drive by MyHeritage.com to encourage people to collect and preserve their family memories online – past and present. Romances between older living relatives and ancestors, often illustrated in love letters, are a critical point in every family’s history. With over 54 million users around the world, MyHeritage.com has become the leading place online for creating and sharing a family tree.
The Historical British Love Letters Online at MyHeritage.com include:
From the 20th Century
Letter written by an airman, ‘Jonny’, to his sweetheart during the Second World War. From the address, it can be established that Jonny was situated at the RAF base in Melbourne, Yorkshire, which was open from 1940 – 45. It is believed that the letters were written at some point during this time frame. No other information is known about the writer of this letter, or the recipient.
Darling sweet, you will think about me and go on loving me if I don’t see you quite so often, won’t you? (I think I shall be able to manage once a week.)
I love you very, very, very much.
Jonny
xxxxxxxx
From the 18th Century
Lyrics for “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond”, or simply “Loch Lomond” for short, the well-known traditional Scottish song. Interpretations of the song vary. One is that it is attributed to a Jacobite Highlander, captured after the1745 rising (often referred to as the ‘Forty-Five), when Charles Edward Stuart – commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender – attempted to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. Some schools of thought believe that this version is written to a lover who lived near the loch; and is sung by one of two captured soldiers, the one who was sentenced to die – the low road being symbolic of the passage to the underworld.
A second interpretation is that the song is sung by the lover of a captured rebel, who was awaiting execution in London. It was common for the heads of executed rebels to be set upon pikes and exhibited between London and Glasgow. A morbid procession along the “high road” (the most important road) would follow, although the relatives of the rebels were forced to walk back along the “low road” (the inferior road travelled by peasants and commoners).
From the 17th Century
Sir Walter Raleigh’s last correspondence to his wife, written during his imprisonment in The Tower of London, on – what he thought was to be – the eve of his execution (1603). Raleigh had been tried and convicted of treason, after his alleged involvement in the Main Plot (a conspiracy by English Catholics to remove King James I from the throne).
From the 16th Century
A letter from Henry VIII to his second wife Anne Boleyn during 1533 – the same year that they were married.
Owing to Henry’s annulled marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the union of Henry and Anne – and her subsequent execution – made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.
From the 15th Century
The Paston letters are a remarkable collection containing over 400 letters (c.200,000 words) written over three generations by a Norfolk family.
From these, the example featured on MyHeritage.com is the oldest love letter in Britain, dating back to 1447. It is also the first-recorded reference to a person being described as a Valentine. The letter was written by Margery Brews to her fiancé John Paston, and it alludes – in some agitation – to dowry arrangements for their impending marriage. It is written in an informal style, with several personal flourishes in the way she forms her letters and no special concern for consistency in spelling. The lettering is not always easy to decipher, and transcripts of the manuscript vary somewhat as a result.
And yf ye cōmande me to kepe me true whereuer Igo, Iwyse Iwill do all my myght yowe to love and neuer no mo [more] And yf my freends say þt Ido amys [amiss] þei schal not me let [hinder] so for to do [.] myne herte me bydds ever more to love yowe truly ouer all erthely thing
An excerpt from Margery Brews letter to her fiancé, John Paston
For more see http://blog.myheritage.com/2011/02/join-our-search-for-the-greatest-love-letter-of-all-time/
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet
My next book, Tracing Your Family History on the Internet, has been published early by Pen and Sword to take advantage of Who Do You Think You Are? Live next week. (It was originally due to be published March 24th). The book will be available there from Feb 25th, though not sure yet when pre-orders may be going out.
Here's the official blurb:
The internet is revolutionizing family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of who we are and where we came from.
But, as Chris Paton demonstrates in this straightforward practical guide, while the internet is an enormous asset, it is also something to be wary of. Researchers need to take a cautious approach to the internet information they acquire. They need to ask, where did the original material come from and has it been accurately reproduced, why was it put online, what has been left out and what is still to come?
As he leads the researcher through the multitude of resources that are now accessible online, Chris Paton helps to answer these questions. He shows what the internet can and cannot do, and he warns against the various traps researchers can fall into along the way.
The chapter headings are:
Introduction
Glossary
Chapter 1: Gateways and Institutions
Recording information; Gateway sites; Key institutions; Commercial vendors
Chapter 2: Genealogical Essentials
Births, marriages and deaths; Church records; censuses; Probate and confirmation; Directories; maps and gazetteers; Nobility and gentry
Chapter 3: Occupational Records
The Armed Forces; Merchant seamen; Workers' rights; Mining; Communications; The Church; The Law; Theatrical; Medical; Business;
Chapter 4: England
Useful resources by county
Chapter 5: Wales
Useful resources by county
Chapter 6: Scotland
Useful resources by county
Chapter 7: Northern Ireland
Useful resources by county
Chapter 8: Crown Dependencies
Useful resources by island
Chapter 9:Empire and Migration
Immigration; emigration - Canada; USA; Jamaica and the Caribbean; South America; Australia; New Zealand; South Africa; India; Gibraltar
Chapter 10: Social Networking
Sharing data; Other networks; Chat; Blog; Twitter
Bibliography
Index
I just want to take this opportunity to thank top genie Simon Fowler, former editor of Ancestors magazine, for suggesting that I have a go at the book initially, and for his many comments subsequently on the text (he didn't make me move mountains as such, but did suggest I rearrange a few islands! lol); to Rupert Harding at Pen and Sword for eternal patience in awaiting the book's delivery; to Brian Elliott for his skilful editing of the material; to Emma Howe, Lisa Hooson, and others at Pen and Sword for marketing etc, and to the many genies, students, blog readers and more who have been in touch to alert me to new developments online, and to all those who supplied images and permissions for screengrabs. And of course, on Valentine's Day, to my lovely wife Claire, and to Calum and Jamie, for their eternal support and constant tea supply!
The book can be ordered from Pen and Sword at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk or from www.amazon.co.uk.
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Here's the official blurb:
The internet is revolutionizing family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of who we are and where we came from.
But, as Chris Paton demonstrates in this straightforward practical guide, while the internet is an enormous asset, it is also something to be wary of. Researchers need to take a cautious approach to the internet information they acquire. They need to ask, where did the original material come from and has it been accurately reproduced, why was it put online, what has been left out and what is still to come?
As he leads the researcher through the multitude of resources that are now accessible online, Chris Paton helps to answer these questions. He shows what the internet can and cannot do, and he warns against the various traps researchers can fall into along the way.
The chapter headings are:
Introduction
Glossary
Chapter 1: Gateways and Institutions
Recording information; Gateway sites; Key institutions; Commercial vendors
Chapter 2: Genealogical Essentials
Births, marriages and deaths; Church records; censuses; Probate and confirmation; Directories; maps and gazetteers; Nobility and gentry
Chapter 3: Occupational Records
The Armed Forces; Merchant seamen; Workers' rights; Mining; Communications; The Church; The Law; Theatrical; Medical; Business;
Chapter 4: England
Useful resources by county
Chapter 5: Wales
Useful resources by county
Chapter 6: Scotland
Useful resources by county
Chapter 7: Northern Ireland
Useful resources by county
Chapter 8: Crown Dependencies
Useful resources by island
Chapter 9:Empire and Migration
Immigration; emigration - Canada; USA; Jamaica and the Caribbean; South America; Australia; New Zealand; South Africa; India; Gibraltar
Chapter 10: Social Networking
Sharing data; Other networks; Chat; Blog; Twitter
Bibliography
Index
I just want to take this opportunity to thank top genie Simon Fowler, former editor of Ancestors magazine, for suggesting that I have a go at the book initially, and for his many comments subsequently on the text (he didn't make me move mountains as such, but did suggest I rearrange a few islands! lol); to Rupert Harding at Pen and Sword for eternal patience in awaiting the book's delivery; to Brian Elliott for his skilful editing of the material; to Emma Howe, Lisa Hooson, and others at Pen and Sword for marketing etc, and to the many genies, students, blog readers and more who have been in touch to alert me to new developments online, and to all those who supplied images and permissions for screengrabs. And of course, on Valentine's Day, to my lovely wife Claire, and to Calum and Jamie, for their eternal support and constant tea supply!
The book can be ordered from Pen and Sword at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk or from www.amazon.co.uk.
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
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